able and imaginative Peter O'Toole was and his scenes with the hilarious Peter Sellers are adorable...so good together. This is no easy little workmanlike drama. There is is so much achieved in every way in this fabulous full-on farce. There is great-good hard work going on behind the...
Black humor is different from the general sense of humor is that it be a wild legend, taunt, cynical included heavy and depressed, tears and pain, melancholy and cruelty, therefore, in its bitter laughter with tears, and even anger. Later, people usually used the term black humor in this...
Blackhumorisdifferentfromthegeneralsenseofhumoristhat itbeawildlegend,taunt,cynicalincludedheavyanddepressed, tearsandpain,melancholyandcruelty,therefore,inits bitterlaughterwithtears,andevenanger.Later,people usuallyusedtheterm"blackhumor"inthis sense. A cool humor that a common people understand: "Cold ...
Garak tells Bashir he will be staying on Cardassia and thanks him for his friendship over the years, admitting he'll miss their lunchtime chats. Bashir says he hopes they will see each other again. Garak, ever cynical, says he hopes so too, but wouldn't count on it. The Female ...
In the poems of the first group, Donne uses a cynical tone to satirize women’s inconstancy, as found in “Go and Catch a Falling Star”. In the poems of the second group, he expresses his genuine sentiments of love, and even sanctifies love as something holy. “The Canonization” and...
Invoking Metzger’s auto-destructive ethos made the trashing of The Who’s equipment a legitimate art gesture in theory, even if some cynical journos and horrified musos remained resolutely unconvinced. “Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere,” the band’s May 1965 second single, accordingly approximated the ...
and outraged by the persistence of American slavery. The realists endeavored to depict both the suffering and absurdity of human life. With its biting humor and unflinching attitude toward the realities of slavery, Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is a quintessential work of American...
don't give up on your dreams.I know what they mean, but this is a bad way to put it, because it implies you're supposed tobe bound by some plan you made early on. The computer world has a name for this:prematureoptimization. And it is synonymous with disaster. These speakers would...
release "Castle of Blood" – can be experienced like never before: When a cynical journalist accepts a wager that he won’t survive the night in a haunted castle, it will unlock an odyssey of sexual torment, undead vengeance and a dark seductress (the legendary Barbara Steele) who...
The character’s climactic speech at his trial not only shoves the knife deeper but clarifies some of the societal, satirical functions of black humor: “As for being a mass killer, does not the world encourage it? Is it not building weapons of destruction for the sole purpose of mass ...